Jamie Foxx is the self-styled king of Christmas parties after blowing $40,000 (£25,000) on lights for a festive bash. The Ray star is a big fan of the festive season and every year he throws a huge celebration for his family and friends.
The first year he hosted his annual party he was shocked at the size of the organiser's bill, but he has continued to spend big to spread some seasonal cheer.
He says, "I am the King of Christmas! For 18 years I've been throwing the best party and my house looks like Disneyland. The lights take about a month to put up and he explains, "You get burned the first few times you do it... The first time I did it, the guy charged me $40,000. I said, 'My man, it's just lights...!' So now we save the lights (to reuse each year). Now we got our process down."
And Foxx has helped decorate his close pal Robert Downey, Jr's house with a top-of-the-range Christmas light display just like his after the Iron Man star grew jealous of the actor/singer's festive features.
The Ray star reveals Downey, Jr. was so impressed with his light show, he demanded the details of Foxx's electrical expert.
He says, "Robert Downey, Jr. came over and he was like, 'Dude, here's the deal: what's with the lights? I need them.' And so the guy who did my lights, Manny, who works at my crib (house), this year he went and did Robert Downey, Jr.'s too."

Actor Jamie Foxx partied with politicians on Saturday night (16Aug14) by inviting former presidential candidate John Mccain and New Jersey governor Chris Christie to join him onstage for a dance at a star-studded fundraiser. The Ray star was a guest at the annual Apollo in the Hamptons bash and he made an extra special effort to get the party swinging.
He took to the stage and invited Christie to join him for a dance, before Senator McCain got up to join in, swiftly followed by Sir Paul McCartney and director Spike Lee.
After the stunt, Foxx told New York Post gossip column Page Six, "Its always the ones you don't expect. Republicans love to dance - in the Hamptons."
Other guests at the event, organised by business magnate Ron Perelman, included Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand, Roger Waters, Anjelica Huston, and Don Johnson.
The audience enjoyed performances by Pharrell Williams, Sting, Gladys Knight, and Jon Bon Jovi at the fundraiser, which netted $4 million (£2.4 million) for development projects at New York's famous Apollo Theatre.
At the close of the evening, Nicholson told Page Six, "That was one hell of a night. Christie really held his own. I told him, as he walked back to his seat, 'Governor, you can't let New Jersey down.'"

Police Academy star Bobcat Goldthwait has married his love of directing with his passion for Big Foot by making a new movie about a search for Sasquatch. The funnyman-turned-filmmaker shot Willow Creek in the remote Six Rivers National Forest in Northern California, where Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin shot footage of what appeared to be Big Foot in 1967, and he admits he has become a big part of the community surrounding the myth.
But he confesses the chance he might stumble across the real thing while making Willow Creek turned him into an obsessive.
He says, "I shot the movie where the Patterson and Gimlin footage was originally shot, that footage where Big Foot's walking through and looks back. It's 17 miles down a dirt road; it takes two and a half hours to get there. There's no cell phones, there's no planes going over.
"You're in the middle of nowhere and when we were filming, we actually did see two mountain lions.... I'm out there and the idea of getting mauled to death wasn't lost on me - 'Bobcat killed by bobcat'... I was kind of insane when I made this movie... I was really obsessed."
Goldthwait admits he takes his love of Big Foot seriously, adding, "People bust my chops on this because I'm an atheist who believes in Big Foot, but I've met people who have heard and seen Big Foot... I'm accepted in the community; I've gone out looking for Big Foot with these guys on a number of occasions.
"I've been to Big Foot conventions and it's fascinating because most people in the Big Foot community believe Big Foot has a flat head, not a pointy head... This guy had a cardboard cut-out of a pointy headed Big Foot and the other guy comes over to him and he goes, 'You disgust me, look at his head!' And he goes, 'Really? I've seen Big Foot three times and you're never gonna see him 'cause you smoke!'"
Goldthwait's Willow Creek, in which actors Alexie Gilmore and Bryce Johnson play Big Foot hunters interacting with town locals, is currently available as a video on demand. It will be released as a Blu-Ray/DVD later this year (14).

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Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in the pulse-pounding action film Sabotage, from the director of End of Watch and the writer of Training Day. When DEA task force leader Breacher Wharton (Schwarzenegger) storms a heavily armed cartel safe house, rogue members of his team use it as a cover to steal $10 million in cash. But just when they think their secret is safe, agents are killed off one-by-one, and everyone is a suspect, including the squad itself. Co-starring Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Terrence Howard, Joe Manganiello, Josh Holloway and Mireille Enos, Sabotage is an explosive tale of betrayal and trust that critics call “a tense, action-packed thrill ride!”
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The Godfather has been named Hollywood's top movie of all-time following an extensive survey of Tinseltown's top studio bosses, Oscar winners and players.
The 1972 crime drama has beaten out The Wizard of Oz and Citizen Kane to top the new Hollywood Reporter list, while The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction round out the top five.
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Casablanca, The Godfather: Part II, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Schindler's List make the top 10.
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, directors Gary Ross, John Singleton and Michael Bay, Disney boss Alan Horn, producer Frank Marshall and top agent Robert Newman were among those who took part in the survey.

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Emma Thompson and Ray Winstone have joined the cast of Trainspotting star Robert Carlyle's directorial debut.
The Full Monty star will portray a barber who becomes a serial killer in The Legend Of Barney Thomson, and he has assembled an all-star cast to help him tell the tale.
Tom Courtenay, James Cosmo and Ashley Jensen will also appear in the adaptation of Douglas Lindsay's novel Long Midnight Of Barney Thomson.

Metallica unplugged for a rare acoustic performance at the 10th anniversary MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert on Monday night (12May14) to honour Ozzy Osbourne. The heavy rockers performed four songs, including versions of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and the Beatles' In My Life, at the Club Nokia gig in Los Angeles and told guests they were thrilled to be able to play.
Frontman James Hetfield said, "We're here to celebrate life, man. Are you alive? It feels good most of the time. Sometimes not as much, but when we get together like this it feels a lot better."
Bandmate Kirk Hammett revealed the night was extra special because it gave him and his bandmates the chance to honour their friend and mentor Osbourne, who was handed the Stevie Ray Vaughn Award by longtime pal Joe Walsh.
He told Rolling Stone, "MusicCares is a great organisation and they've helped out a lot of our friends. And Ozzy Osbourne has done so much for us. This is one small way we can say thank you to him."
Bassist Robert Trujillo added, "I don't know if we'd be doing what we do if there wasn't an Ozzy and a Black Sabbath. We grew up playing those songs and the first time I picked up the bass and started getting into it, I was playing Iron Man or Sweet Leaf. He's our brother and this organisation has really helped save his life and keep him with us and more powerful than ever."
Osbourne closed his own tribute gig by taking the stage with his band, Slash and Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro for a set that featured hits like Crazy Train and Black Sabbath's Paranoid.
The MusiCares Foundation, Inc. was created to give musicians a place to turn in times of financial, personal, or medical crisis.

Damian Lewis is set to play English king Henry VIII in a TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall.
The Homeland actor will star opposite Mark Rylance, who will play Thomas Cromwell, in the six-part miniseries. The drama, which will be directed by White Oleander's Peter Kosminsky, will chronicle Cromwell's rise in the Tudor court.
In addition to Lewis and Rylance's casting, Claire Foy has been tapped to play Anne Boleyn, Jonathan Pryce will take on the role of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and Joanne Whalley will portray Katherine of Aragon, one of Henry VIII's six wives. Lewis joins the ranks of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ray Winstone, Robert Shaw and Keith Michell, who have also portrayed Henry VIII onscreen.

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Billy Eichner, the incurably loud host of Billy on the Street, is starring in his own scripted comedy on the USA network (via The Hollywood Reporter). The show, titled Difficult People (produced by Amy Peohler), will star Eichner and longtime writing partner Julie Klausner as two frustrated comedians living in New York who come to hate everything around them, except each other.
We've long hoped that the impeccably talented Billy Eichner would get his own starring role. Some might say that his Billy Eichner is a one trick pony, but that would be denying his incredible talents. As you should already know, Eichner is the Sir Laurence Olivier of accosting strangers on busy Manhattan avenues. Call it street theater if you will, with the packed grids of New York City serving as his stage. The actor has an incredible amount of range and depth in his work. He's a master class of subtlety, grace, and screaming. We've collected several clips that show Eichner in his element, finding and exploiting the finest nuances of acting, and blowing out the tri-state area's collective eardrum.
Here, Eichner displays subtle feelings of despair when bellowing about Disney's mistreatment of Ratatouille:
Here, Eichner accesses his deep vulnerability when screaming at New Yorkers about Paul Rudd:
Here, Eichner channels the quiet intensity of Robert Redford as he yells why Barry's speed drawing looks like "Noodle Hitler":
This clip featuring Amy Poehler exhibits Eichner's debilitating fears about the commercialization of Christmas:
Here, Billy intellectually ruminates on race relations in America by demanding that people name three white women:
Finally, Bill Eichner show strength and perseverance while screaming about the evils of Rachael Ray:
See? We're gearing up for some quality TV.
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